https://sachablack.co.uk/2021/08/18/099-how-to-write-and-sell-short-fiction-with-matty-dalrymple/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=099-how-to-write-and-sell-short-fiction-with-matty-dalrymple Books, Business and Bad Words Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:56:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://sachablack.co.uk/2021/08/18/099-how-to-write-and-sell-short-fiction-with-matty-dalrymple/comment-page-1/#comment-25559 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 17:56:21 +0000 https://sachablack.co.uk/?p=10918#comment-25559 At some point in the podcast—not sure if I heard this correctly—I thought I heard Matty say she was selling up to 50 or a hundred copies of a short story at a buck a piece. Now that’s 50–100 short stories more than I have ever sold, but it still seems like a rather low return on the marketing effort. I’ve done a bit of research into what fiction magazines (literary and otherwise) pay, and a reputable mag like Clarksworld will pay 10 cents/word, so that would be 500 yankee dollars for a 5,000 word story. Now, you may say that it’s tough to get a story accepted in Clarksworld, but if you do, then the self-publishing income potential would have to exceed what Clarksworld or similar would pay you before you stepped away form the traditional route.

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